Former Encompass Home Health and Hospice CEO April Anthony used several deceptive practices to hide her plans to recruit employees from her old company and form a competitor, a Dallas County district judge ruled earlier this summer.
The judge's finding of fact provides more detail into just what happened in Anthony’s final months with the company.
If you're looking for a high-quality nursing home, the advice from experts is loud and clear: Do your homework. They advise future residents and their families to dive into government records and conduct their own facility inspections. They also recommend not rushing to choose a facility. Many people, however, are discharged directly from hospitals to one of the nation's more than 15,000 nursing homes, leaving little time for research.
Hundreds of thousands of workers are leaving the caregiving industry. Unless immigration policies and industry standards change, an aging U.S. is going to face drastic consequences.
State District Judge Donald "Chick" Foret may no longer oversee a slew of lawsuits over the bungled evacuation of seven of Bob Dean's nursing homes for Hurricane Ida, a state appeals court has ruled.
A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal found that Foret, a judge from the 24th Judicial District Court in Jefferson Parish, displayed bias when he questioned in court whether he could be impartial in the case, given that a lawyer Foret despised had a business relationship with one of the plaintiffs' attorneys.
The leaders of several Tampa Bay area Home Helpers franchises banded together in a unified display of support for their employees recently, hosting an "employee gas party" on July 9.
Four branches of the home health care provider offered all employees $30 worth of free gas, noting the act of kindness represented a small but not insignificant way to give back home health care workers
Michigan's 165,000 workforce of personal care aides, certified nurse assistants, home health aides and others who help aging or disabled Michiganders remain independently at home and save the state millions of dollars, remain severely underpaid, advocates say.
Add to that, there are too few of the direct-care workers, creating a crisis among families whose loved ones need help with such daily activities as shopping, bathing, or getting out of bed each morning.